martes, 21 de febrero de 2012

Interview: T.W.A.T. (Sweden)

OÏ! OÏ! Prepare to reactivate your body, 'cause tonight we're going to heard the sound of the struggle, the battleground is full of Ebmers, punks & skins, all united, here's come the swedish duo called: T.W.A.T.

"T.W.A.T. emerged as one of the most unique projects last year, mixing oi and oldschool ebm styles,

which led to very catchy and fresh results! EBM has always been to some level influenced by punk music

through origins of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Nitzer Ebb, and this influence is present in most modern bands as well.

However, T.W.A.T. is an entirely different case, because the Oi influence (which is unique from typical punk) stands out very strongly in their music -

which results in an entirely outstanding mix. T.W.A.T. is the very first band to go in this direction, and is doing so with great success."

(einetasserjager.blogspot.com, january 2010)

1. Hi, Martin & Mary, i think everyone has already listen to your music, but again, can you introduce yourselves to ours readers?

The best way to describe our music would be our view of the best of EBM mashed together with the best of OiPunk.

We've got hard-ass beats spiced with melodies and in-your-face-lyrics meant to make you feel and sometimes be provoked.

We're treading a thin line between meaningfulness and preteniousness and that alone can be provoking, hopefully we manage to wake some sleeping lions.

2. After two ep, the solo project turned into a duo, can you tell us more about this development?

T.W.A.T. started out as Martins project, he was experimenting trying to find new angles on how to develop todays EBM. The songs recieved great feedback which lead to a gig in Germany.

I (Mary) was supposed to go with him for moral support, we made a roadtrip out of it. During this trip as I was helping Martin practise he remarked that it would be cool if I could join him on stage.

It turned out a success and on the way back home we were already discussing new ideas for T.W.A.T. Since then we've worked together on the project, it's great fun and we find we complement each other well.

3. How you divide the work to write a title?

We both write lyrics for T.W.A.T., sometimes one of us has written something but find it lacking something and the other one will chip in and complete it. Martin makes all of the music for the moment,

we make sure that we both listen and work at all songs together though, in our case four ears have proved better than two.

4. Is it easy to share a common life and music within the same band?

Yes! Haha, in our case it is. We have a little daughter and full-time jobs so the fact that we live together is perfect. We never have to schedule time for rehearsing or producing, lyrics are written and

examined as we make dinner and we'll spend the night forgetting to sleep and talking about music - well that would be the downside - lack of sleep ;D

5. After an ep & an album in the middle 2011, a new label for 2012, are you at work to release another album?

We sure are, seems 2012 is a year for music. Fingers crossed we'll have a new album out soon.

6. When I presented the draft of this compilation, you did not think twice, it is free and open to all, what do you think about all that?

We believe in progress and we believe in getting the word out. Our music is about raising your voice and making yourself heard. We guess it's every musician for themselves but for us we're more than willing to pay for a collectors LP or CD, and happy to pay for a banging concert - but pay for downloading churns the stomach. I guess we're old fashioned materialist who still live in the naïvety of thinking the internet should be free and open to all.

7. The radio is coming from South / Central america, do you listen to some bands from there?

We like all quality music regardless of origin. There is really awesome music coming from all parts of the world!

8. Some concerts are planning for 2012?

March 16 at Synthcave in Gothenburg Sweden

October 5-6 at Elektrostat in Norway

...we're hoping for more (wink wink to anyone arranging clubs and concerts out there)

9. Can you tell us yours ten favourites albums of all the times?

We can't agree on this one so we'll give you 5 each (although it pains us to leave out loads of other great albums)